Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 3, 2024

While Boz celebrates startup culture, he also acknowledges its challenges. While it’s crucial to value customer feedback, startups should avoid being held hostage by the preferences of their early user base if it deviates from the broader market. Ask your leaders or managers for help when facing difficulties.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 31, 2023

When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. Another thing that Dave has done well is to look at the value of different marketing channels: There’s a lot of value in this presentation. Focus on building an MVP to gather startup metrics.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

We can learn a lot from examining the journey of a product and this interview looks at the product story of Badger Maps, the market-leading route planning app for field salespeople. Since then, he’s taken on product management, managing the marketing website, SEO strategy, and analytics. We were an unfunded startup.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 11, 2024

Simplify security | Ahrefs —Improve your website’s SEO for free — Sam Schillace is deputy CTO and corporate vice president at Microsoft. Sam was also a principal investor at Google Ventures, has founded six startups, and was the SVP of engineering at Box through their IPO.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Over the past year we have introduced new products, like our bot Operator and our live chat solution for sales and marketing teams, and new levels of automation and intelligence to help do this. This is just the start, we will be building out new products here and in all of our offices.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

This refers to the fear many large established companies are feeling as more and more new players and startups enter the markets to disrupt them. One of the ways in which these new players are differentiating themselves from others in the market is through great product people and effective product management. Becoming a CPO.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

You’ve got your product out in the market. If the founder or product manager has a vision that is based on an interesting idea but isn’t based in data or evidence about what’s going on in the market, it’s probably doomed to fail. Now’s the time to iterate.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

MVP is a phrase that startup people love to throw around. That’s the tug of genuine market enthusiasm. Then we met a man who had developed the technology to personalise marshmallows. But I thought that even if 80% of the world hated the idea, as long as the other 20% liked it, we had a big market. Not at all.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In a recent Intercom on Product podcast , our co-founder Des talked about that old Jedi bell curve meme, and how it often applies to startups’ speed. Most startups journey through the “install more processes” stage until they finally realize they just need to move as fast as possible.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. all the ingredients of a great startup experience!

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 9, 2024

” Uri is dedicated to creating impactful startups that solve real-world problems and has seen everything from failure to moderate success to big success. This is the biggest driver of startup success. The ultimate measure of product-market fit is customer retention. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Tldr; half of startups fail, and a small portion – 6% – make all of the money. And other Q&A.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Whenever I talk to startup CEOs, especially first-timers, the discussion on product goes immediately to UX and wireframes. In the evolution of a startup, the founders initially do whatever they can themselves. considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 14, 2024

In her more than 10 years at DoorDash, she has served as the first general manager, responsible for launching new markets; the head of business ops and analytics; and the VP of analytics and data science. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2019

They will become a product evangelist ( free influencer marketing ). For the sake of the story and easier understanding, imagine that you and I are building a startup. This is also a piece of valuable information for market segmentation and a better understanding of your audience. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? That’s it.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. Rachel Hepworth: Introducing growth marketing to Slack. That just blows my mind.

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NextBigWhat

JANUARY 6, 2022

Zerodha defies all standard norms of building a tech startup. In this deep community cast, Zerodha’s CTO, Kailash shares it all in conversation with Ashish Sinha. Also in the current market how are they dealing with it? 33 member team powering the country’s largest stock brokerage platform! Design principles.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. He has experienced IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure.

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The Review by First Round

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Today’s episode is with Adrian McDermott, CTO of Zendesk. Our discussion digs into the challenges that come from scaling startups. Adrian goes much deeper than the “what got you here won’t get you there” advice you hear all the time in startups. Then we dive into another classic startup dilemma: whether to build or to buy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. Every startup goes through three basic stages as it strives to become the next Uber or Amazon: idea, launch, and growth. The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. No Market Need.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. I personally love to be early and use the opportunity to set the bar really high in the market.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

TikTok wins global markets by hiring locally and refining algorithms to fit regional and local cultures. Startups looking to advertise on TikTok should begin by establishing an organic presence, testing content, and then gradually transitioning to targeted ads.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

If we are actually trying to win our market and be the absolute best customer communications company, we need to make exquisitely good use of our precious engineering resources. Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line. Not every startup is able to handle our throughput or reliability needs. Who do we outsource to?

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. I said, “Mother, you’re right” – and I went to the economics faculty and studied marketing. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Michael Ciano, CTO with 20+ years of experience talks about building trust as a key for leveraging technology in healthcare, building a robust business architecture and building an organization culture that fosters innovation. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I remember working at a startup where we were striving to get to nightly builds so that we could ship software every day. Ideally, this outcome is a two-way negotiation between an executive at the company, often a chief product officer, a chief design officer, a CTO, and the cross-functional product team.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries. million USD) to boost its growth in a global market. market, localization strategy between Japan and the U.S., Why BASE FOOD chose the West Coast as the first market to target in the U.S.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I’ve enjoyed working in UX research , in startups, so I imagine what I’m doing for Amplitude as a product. Now I’m in a looser team across marketing, but I think about what I’m doing as a product.”. So, as someone who lives and breathes product management and product thinking, how does he find playing a supporting role? “I

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Free trials?

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